"The Petersens and the Silesian Kinderbeten Revival" by Eric Swensson. Originally presented at the 2011 meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, this paper was added June 20, 2012 in anticipation of extensive excerpts appearing in the Summer 2012 issue of The Pneuma Review.

Letter to Cardinal Kasper C. Mel Robeck sends a letter of remembrances and condolences regarding the death of Pope John Paul II. Professor Robeck is the Pentecostal co-chair of the International Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue. Added April 8, 2005.

"Pentecostal/Charismatic Themes in Luke-Acts at the Evangelical Theological Society: The Battle of the Interpretive Method" By Paul Elbert.Abstract:"Through interactive dialogue with Evangelical scholars and through an
assessment of their interpretive methods, one may identify an ‘apostolic age' hermeneutic which intrinsically imposes questionable assumptions upon Luke's two-volume work and upon Paul. The result may be termed Lukan and Pauline cessationism. For Luke, narrative disconnectedness replaces narrative-rhetorical cohesion. His examples and precedents of reception of the gift of the Holy Spirit by disciple-believer-witnesses either undergo mass extinction or reinterpretation, reinterpretation which serves the traditional presupposition of an ‘apostolic age' instead of the narrative sequencing and personification of Lukan characters. Luke's fulfilment of prophecy theme is totally ignored. For Paul, similar discursive description of pneumatological experience which Paul assumes is understandable to his selected addressees—language perhaps being urgently and pastorally clarified by Luke's conventional use of examples and precedents—is disconnected from the common oral and cognitive environment shared within the Jerusalem/Petrine Christianity portrayed by Luke. Via discussion, reflection, and testimony, perhaps the coherency and validity of traditional ‘apostolic age' hermeneutics might be explored on the battlefield of biblical interpretation."PDF, size: 408KB. Added December 19, 2004.

"Participating with God" By Brian C. Smith. Considerations from the Orthodox East for the Theological Task of the West. Added December 19, 2004.

"An Evaluation of the History of Pentecostal Dalits in Kerala" by Yesunatha Das (Th.M. thesis, South Asian Institute of Advanced Christian Studies, Bangalore, 2001).Introduction:Yesunatha Das' study of Dalit pentecostalism opens up new perspectives on Asian pentecostalism in general and Indian pentecostalism more particularly. It shows that while the "color line was washed away in the blood" at Azusa Street, the line was quickly re-established not only in North American pentecostalism but also in places like India. The work for justice and reconciliation remains, and Das' thesis will provide new insights & motivations toward that end.
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"Reconstructing Word of Faith Theology" By Derek Vreeland. Pastor Vreeland offers a defense, analysis, and refinement of the theology of the Word of Faith Movement.
A modified version of this paper was published as "Reconstructing Word of Faith Theology" in Refleks 1-2 (2002) pp. 51-68.

Web Exclusive Review Essay: "On Fire and Up to Date" An extended review of Amos Yong, The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology (Baker Academic, 2005). Reviewed by Tony Richie.

Download the full issue of Refleks (1-2 2002). The Refleks Journal is a bilingual (Norwegian and English) scholarly journal dedicated to the study of the Holiness Movement, Pentecostalism and neo-Pentecostalism. This issue includes English articles: "Healing in Redemption" by Joseph McIntyre and "Reconstructing Word of Faith Theology" by Derek Vreeland as well as excellent book reviews.

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More In Depth ResourcesPentecostal/charismatic & Academic Studies on the Internet

Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative Launched by the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. "To provide a scholarly framework to investigate Pentecostalism and the various renewal movements that have emerged in Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, and mainline Protestantism."

Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center This Assemblies of God archives is one of the largest collections of materials documenting the global Pentecostal movement; website contains free research tools, including over 200,000 digitized pages of periodicals and online catalog with over 50,000 entries.

PentecoStudies Online Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Pentecostalism and Charismatic Movements. Published under the auspices of GloPent since 2006.

Encounter from the website: "The Assemblies of God Theological Seminary is proud to introduce Encounter: Journal for Pentecostal Ministry, a scholarly publication intended to serve the Church of Jesus Christ by bringing transforming theological and professional insight to bear on the practice of ministry in the Pentecostal tradition." Numerous online articles and book reviews, with additional resources promised for the future.

UBS Journal Published since 2003 by Union Biblical Seminary in Pune, India.

Journal of Pentecostal Theology Abstracts from the journal are available online. From the Publisher: The Journal of Pentecostal Theology is the first academic serial to publish constructive theological research from a Pentecostal perspective on an international scholarly level.

Reconciliation, a journal for PCCNA (Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America) edited by Harold D. Hunter and Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. In order to view this issue, one must have the freely distributed Adobe Acrobat Reader. This file is 457K. Hyperlinks may be found throughout the document, but particularly on the title page.

Renewal Journal The Renewal Journal is published twice a year in Australia for people interested in renewal and revival. Many articles by diverse authors.

Revival Library Home to the largest collection of digitized revival and Pentecostal texts available on the internet.

Theological Research Exchange Network A library of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. Also makes available conference papers presented at annual meetings of several academic societies including Evangelical Theological Society and the Society for Pentecostal Studies.

Early English Books Online These are the featured [free online] documents from the massive project by Univeristy of Michigan, Oxford, and microfiche giant ProQuest of placing all English books printed from 1450-1700 online.

Dictionary of African Christian Biography an international undertaking aimed at producing an electronic database containing the essential biographical facts of African Christian leaders, evangelists, and lay workers chiefly responsible for laying the foundations and advancing the growth of Christian communities in Africa.

"The S Factor: A conversation about Pentecostalism with Donald E. Miller". Interview by Timothy Sato. Books & Culture (July/August 2009). "Dynamic worship, singing, all-night prayer meetings, and fasting: these are things that give a power and discipline to one's vision and enable people to attempt the seemingly impossible. That's why I don't see Pentecostalism as only otherworldly."

Bruce Hindmarsh, "And Can It Be?: Charles Wesley gets his turn" Books & Culture (May/June 2009). Charles' later ecclesial and theological differences with his brother John and John's disciples led to Charles' monumental contributions to early Methodism being downplayed and forgotten.

"Gossip Pages of Early Christianity" an interview with Laura Nasrallah, author of An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity. Discusses: Looking seriously at dreams, prophecies, and visions. Opinion of Montanism. Regarding tongues, dreams, prophecies as madness can be a religious/political device even today.

The Berlin Declaration on the Uniqueness of Christ and Jewish Evangelism in Europe Today "An international task force of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance met on the issue of the uniqueness of Christ and Jewish evangelism in Berlin, Germany, from August 18-22, 2008. We met to consider how our community might express genuine love for the Jewish people, especially in Europe. Participants included Christians from Germany and Messianic Jews."

The Center for Early African Christianity "The Christians of Africa are growing faster than in any other area of world Christianity. It is to their future that this effort is dedicated. They deserve to have an accessible way into understanding early African Christianity, its faith, courage, tenacity, and remarkable intellectual strength. The global Christian mind has been formed out of a specific history, not out of bare theoretical ideas."

Day of Atonement Suggested by Kevin W.: "The Temple Institute has some great material (with pictures), on the Yom Kippur service as it would have been conducted in the days of Jesus and the disciples. Of course, it is strictly from an Orthodox Jewish perspective, but if anyone knows how it was observed, these guys do."

Global Missiology is a free quarterly online publication with original research and contributions from practitioners and scholars of international representation with global perspectives. Chinese and French editions are also available with articles that are not translations of the English, but rather original contributions from specialists working in those language contexts. Suggested by Brigada Today 2007/09/28.

"Paul Hiebert: A Life Remembered" by Robert J. Priest. "... Soon Paul's essays on conversion (contrasting 'bounded-set' vs. 'centered-set' thinking), critical contextualization, split-level Christianity, and self-theologizing were establishing many of his ideas as core concepts of the discipline. Paul sometimes wrote for missionary practitioners, as in his Anthropological Insights for Missionaries (Baker, 1985), which has sold over 50,000 copies. But many of his writings aimed, successfully, at influencing missiology as a field. For example, according to Darrell Whiteman, former editor of Missiology, Paul's essay on 'Critical Contextualization' has been employed as a theoretical framework in more missiology Ph.D. dissertations in the last twenty years than any other single missiological contribution. ..." (Books & Culture, September/October 2007).

Guenther "Gene" Haas, "Creational Ethics is Public Ethics" Journal for Christian Theological Research 12 (2007). (.pdf)Abstract:This paper presents the framework and key doctrines relevant to public moral engagement as found in the Reformed or neo-Calvinist tradition shaped by Abraham Kuyper and his disciples. My thesis is that Christian ethics is public ethics because it is creational ethics. Christian ethics has a place in the public arena because it is the articulation of the creational moral order that constitutes and guides all human beings. Neo-Calvinism considers the creation order as foundational. The fall of creation and its redemption must be understood in relation to this foundational doctrine. But the creational order also shapes the nature of Christian involvement in the public domain. The final section highlights some implications of this for involvement in public life. | Suggested by TS: "You may not be a fan of Kuyper or neo-Calvinist thought, but I think this should be read by anyone interested in understanding how Reformed folks approach cultural and political engagement."